Frailty index is a significant predictor of complications and mortality after surgery for adult spinal deformity

Spine

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2016, Pages E1394-E1401

  Leven, Dante M ^a   Lee, Nathan J ^a   Kothari, Parth ^a   Steinberger, Jeremy ^a   Guzman, Javier ^a   Skovrlj, Branko ^a   Shin, John I ^a   Caridi, John M ^a   Cho, Samuel K ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult deformity; Frailty; Frailty index; Mortality; Postoperative complications; Predictors; Reoperation; Revision; Risk factors; Spinal deformity

Indexed keywords

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM INFECTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CURRENT PROCEDURAL TERMINOLOGY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FRAILTY; HEART ARREST; HUMAN; ICD-9; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY RATE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SPINE FUSION; SPINE MALFORMATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND COMPLICATION; AGED; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPLICATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NEUROSURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; REGISTER; RISK ASSESSMENT; SPINAL DISEASES; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT;

ADULT; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORBIDITY; NEUROSURGICAL PROCEDURES; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUALITY IMPROVEMENT; REGISTRIES; REOPERATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SPINAL DISEASES;

EID: 84984698975     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: 15281159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BRS.0000000000001886     Document Type: Article

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